Hibernate version: 3.0.5 (say)

I want to load test data using the dom4j mapping, and then translate it straight into a POJO object graph or Map-Of-Maps, without persisting it to the database. Can I do this?

I have working hbm mapping docs for all the above. (In fact I have to generate some of them on the fly, which is why I use EntityMode.MAP). I can go to/from the database using each EntityMode. But I want to go straight from one in-memory representation to one of the others. I can't see how this can be done.

I can create a dom4j object, call dom4jsession.save(), but when I create a pojoSession and call get, it doesn't find my object, unless I've called commit - in which case it's saved to the database, which I don't want.

Do I have any chance of getting this to work? Can you think of a better way around it?

I could write something myself, but given that all the mapping information is concentrated in the hbm files, it seems a shame if Hibernate can't do this itself.

Many thanks
Jeremy

I think there is a reference here from Gavin
http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.ph ... 32&start=0

...which seems to imply that this will be implemented with a "transform()" method - assuming they are talking about the same thing.